Swift Class are Terrible Tudors!
We have had an amazing day with Mr Adby from Partake History.
We began our day with Mr Adby teaching us how to dance like they did in Tudor times. We created long lines by holding hands and following the leader – this was called dancing the Farandole. We then learned how to bow and curtsey like ladies and gentlemen at the Tudor court, hearing some gruesome facts about lice in the gentlemen’s hats! (That’s why they didn’t show the inside of them when removing them when bowing!) It turns out that, as a class, we are very talented at Tudor dancing! We also learned a Tudor game called Hunting My Lord’s Deer in the Park
After break, Mr Adby showed us lots of Tudor artifacts. The children were able to handle these and discuss what each could be. The children came up with lots of suggestions and were amazed and shocked (and sometimes mildly disgusted) by what they actually were used for. They also sketched some of the artefacts which allowed the children to look at them in even more detail.
After lunch, Mr Adby dressed up Georgia and Leo as wealthy Tudor children. These clothes are actually replicas of those worn by the young Prince Edward and Princess Elizabeth and were very heavy.
Finally, we had the chance to try writing with real feather quills and ink which was much trickier than we thought. We all had a go at writing Queen Elizabeth I’s signature before writing our own names.